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Assault :: Assault (n.) A violent onset or attack with moral weapons, as words, arguments, appeals, and the like; as, to make an assault on the prerogatives of a prince, or on the constitution of a government..

Onslaught :: Onslaught (n.) An attack; an onset; esp., a furious or murderous attack or assault..

Assassinate :: Assassinate (v. t.) To kill by surprise or secret assault; to murder by treacherous violence.

Supportable :: Support (n.) That which maintains or preserves from being overcome, falling, yielding, sinking, giving way, or the like; subsistence; maintenance; assistance; reenforcement; as, he gave his family a good support, the support of national credit; the assaulting column had the support of a battery..

Force :: Force (n.) To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress..

Stormed :: Storm (n.) A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter and take a fortified place by scaling the walls, forcing the gates, or the like..

Belay :: Belay (v. t.) To lie in wait for with a view to assault. Hence: to block up or obstruct.

Assailant :: Assailant (n.) One who, or that which, assails, attacks, or assaults; an assailer..

Assail :: Assail (v. t.) To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery..

Assault :: Assault (n.) To make an assault upon, as by a sudden rush of armed men; to attack with unlawful or insulting physical violence or menaces..

Saute :: Saute (n.) An assault.

Onset :: Onset (v. t.) To assault; to set upon.

Salience :: Salience (n.) The quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting.

Expugnation :: Expugnation (n.) The act of taking by assault; conquest.

Murderous :: Murderous (a.) Of or pertaining to murder; characterized by, or causing, murder or bloodshed; having the purpose or quality of murder; bloody; sanguinary; as, the murderous king; murderous rapine; murderous intent; a murderous assault..

Shield :: Shield (n.) To cover with, or as with, a shield; to cover from danger; to defend; to protect from assault or injury..

Repel :: Repel (v. t.) To resist or oppose effectually; as, to repel an assault, an encroachment, or an argument..

Offension :: Offension (n.) Assault; attack.

Assailment :: Assailment (n.) The act or power of assailing; attack; assault.

Affray :: Affray (v. t.) A tumultuous assault or quarrel; a brawl; a fray.

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